Canvas has an option to make a file "only available to students with link" but does not explain how to provide a link to a student.Does anyone know how to provide a student with a link to a restricted file in the Files section on Canvas?

I am trying to find my LLED 401 course from Spring 2023. I have been on fellowship for the past year and I am just getting back to teaching the course this semester. I didn't know that the course would disappear while I was away. Can you retrieve the...

Hello all--My institution has adopted Simple Syllabus. I am struggling to find a way to link from within that Syllabus to other pages in my Course. One example: in the "Course Materials" section, I want to link to a page where I compiled some additio...

Blackboard transferred over to canvas around 2022.  For prior students in 2021, how do we get access to those files to use for current course work?

When students log on to my course, they see various options on the left side. Syllabus, Modules, Pages etc. I don't want most of those. Instead I want to create a whole new option or at least be able to rename the sections. So instead of people havin...

Is there a system-level or course-level way to disable student assignment comments in Canvas? To my knowledge and testing, faculty are not notified of these comments. Please let me know if there is a way to immediately notify faculty when a student p...

I just want to delete unused shells that are in my dashboard that have never been published. Does anyone know how? 

 (in the hundreds) for changes to the course (even unpublished modules). How do I turn this off?

For admins:We allow our TAs to grade assignments, but we want to use the Gradebook Notes field to list accommodations, but we don't want the TAs to see the accommodations. Is there a way to restrict TAs from seeing the Gradebook Notes field but still...

I would like to set up a Sub Admin account for an external administrator who wants to access all the areas of a cohort we are hosting within our organisations Canvas platform. They want to manage their own analytics and course admin for a section of ...

Hello all,I usually send out an announcement at the start of each week for my students. It details the agenda and assignments and keeps them on track. However, I also have a page in each module that does this. If I use the "assign to" feature, will t...

I am an Admin. We had created a staff observer role for our PLC Chairs, and we recently discovered that this role no longer has the ability to View as Student on the Instructor Pages. I am attaching their current permissions. Can anyone assist with w...

I don't know if anyone else has bee frustrated with the new "Assign Access" hyperlink. When assigning access to individual students or separate classes it used to be at the bottom of the page and you could just add there.  Now you have to click on th...

Hi there Just wanting to request a feature for Canvas Assignments - we have some Instructors who want a physical hand in of an Assignment and the same thing submitted digitally at the same time so they can use Turn It In to check for plagiarism. It w...

Hello, can you please grant me access to chemistry class chem 110 77033, thank you.I added the class 08/19/24 in person with the instructor add on code. 

How do I make Modules my Home page?

Hello Hive Mind, I am told that Canvas has the basic functionality as Kami. I need my students to be able to write on PDF's and than resubmit them to me for grading. I for the life of me can not figure out how to do that. Does anyone have a quick how...

Canvas is already so bloated! Why do I now have to make an additional click to open a separate screen to set a due date? You keep making it worse!   And can we stop with the 17 Captch requests?? I don't have time for this crap!   And I like the title...

I'm a teacher with a passion for safety education, and I'm planning to launch a new course on my website focused on fire safety. The course will cover important topics like safe use of fireplaces, stoves, and other common household items that pose fi...

Here is a real conundrum. In courses that I created using the SIS Import, teachers are not able to remove students. Their role is a teacher but when they click on the dots in People, the drop down only shows: Prior to using SIS Import, staff made th...

I need to send an announcement to all the students in a class that already finished (basically a reminder to for them to pick up final projects). In the past I would just post an announcement at the beginning of the next term - however when I logged ...

While we sync most students from our SIS (Anthology), inevitably there are a few students who need to be added manually for one reason or another. They show up as "pending" because they don't have access to Canvas right now. We have had a couple facu...

When creating announcements, I do not want my students to reply to them.  This was not a problem last semester but this semester, the Reply button continually shows.  I have unclicked the button that says "allow comments" and saved the announcement, ...

How can I export my student roster from Canvas?

An instructor reported that SpeedGrader is randomly sorting students when selecting sort by student name.  When sorted the list of students (105) is apparently being segmented.  Those segments are alphabetized in reverse alphabetical order, but then ...

Hi y'all, How do I automate reminders for assignment submission dates (2 weeks, 1 week and due date) reminders?It has been requested that we automate the sending of email reminders to students two weeks, one week and one day before an assignment is d...

I need the consumer key and the shared secret so I can use the lockdown browser.Please help. 

I'm trying to import my courses from last year and they don't show in the drop down menu of choices of courses to import.

Hello, When setting up a Quiz there are three adjustable dates: ' Due At,'  'Available From' and 'Available Until' I understand that the 'Available Until'  date will allow students to take the quiz until this date. Question:  Can students still see t...

When adding new assignments, is there any other way to move them in the instructor gradebook other than dragging them one by one through all of the other assignments in the gradebook to get them where you want. I would assume that if I put them in th...